The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-11
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wait until / tell you more about my
wife that is to be. You hit the nail CO
the head in the beginning of your sem
tence. / am really going to marry the
daughter of a washerwoman."
Lucy grew suddenly white. A trou-
bled look came into her frank eyes.
You don't mean to say that it is the
little girl whom / gave Mrs. O'Conner
permission to bring to my house, that
has worked this mischief"
ut is indeed Norah O'Conner, poor
In this worlds gear as she is rich in q
woman's peerless loneliness. But I
reckoned without my host in thinking
you superior to the traditions of society.
l might have expected that even o
would be cold and scornful."
mo, Howe, / am neither the one nor
the other. / am, however, truly
grieved at your infatuation. Will you
kindly say no more about it now and
drive me homer"
Lucy's sudden dignity angered Howe,
and with an impatient exclamation, he
devoted himself to the care of the spir-
tied animal he was dri-ias.
AT her own door Lucy put out her
hand. Whatever happens, Howe, your
cousin Lucy will be your friend. But
do not tax mo beyond a woman's power
of endurance. If you are in earn
est in what you have said, / advise
you to think well of it and do moth
ing for which you will be sorry for in
the future"
"Your dis~approbation has given me
the greatest pain that l expect to exper-
fence. Lucy. But it has not altered my
mind. / worship the very ground my
darling's feet have touched"
II only wish you may always feel so,
Howe" was Lucy's reioinder; ''for a
marriage out of ones station seldom
confers lasting happiness"
The marriage took place, but Lucy
did not attend it. Howe took his bride
away for the wedding tour, and, finding
so much enjoyment where, as no one
knew anything about Norah's anteced-
ents she could not be exposed to Sights,
and all did homage to her beauty and
grace, their stay was prolonged indefin-
itely.
Lucy had never seen Norah, as her
old housekeeper had returned to her
place the week previous to her own ar
rival at home, and she had declined
Howe's proposal to bring his hancee to
the house to introduce her.
A few months after, she received 6
note from him, accompanied by q scaled
package.
DEAR COUSIN LUCY" wrote Howe
for so j shall always call you, al
though you have crossed me OH your
good books-I herewith send a tangible
excuse for what you consider my folly.
Look upon the pictured face-which
does not do full justice to the original
and acknowledge that you have for
once been a harsh Judge. Iassure you
it is the index of a fine nature, which is
daily developing into q luxuriant
growth of goodness, and whose posses
sor is one of earth's most gifted souls In
more ways than mere personal beau
ty. If you should conclude to
come abroad ] hope you will
let 'bygones be bogones,' and come
and join us. Cousin HOWE"
"The glamour still lasts" thought
Lucy, as she removed the wrapping
paper from the picture.
But she wondered no longer when at
last her eyes rested upon it.
IL was taken in what was evidently a
bridal dress, for orange blossoms were
fastened in the soft lace which foated
in transparent folds arous.d the exquis-
tie face and form.
1t was not a rich costume, but its
simplicity rendered it the more evident
that its wearer needed no glimmer OF
silk or satin to add to her ~queenship
in the ranks of womanlv beauty.
AS Lucy noticed the absence of rich
accessories in Norah's dress she re-
called some words spoken by Howe
which had brought at the time q scorn-
full smile to her lips.
"Norah is stubborn about one thing,
Lucy" he said. "She Will not accept
a gift of me unless it be OF flowers. /
would like to buy her something costly
and unique for her bridal robe, but she
will not let me. I tell her it is all
nonsense, when she will so Don own
me, and all of my worldly goods into
the bargain"
These words arose and foated through
Lucy's mind now, as though to
prove that the fair, patrician looking
face before her was conscious of a
heaven born right to hold as proudly to
her ideas of right and propriety as any
lady in the land.
II do not wonder at Howe's hulluci-
nation after seeing a picture ofhis wife,"
she said, a few hours later to an intimate
friend. "If she is as beautiful as she is
represented, a man might well lose his
senses about her"
Lucy occasionally heard from Vim
cant In nm indiract way